Background

Dr. James Ireland Cash, Jr., also known as Jim, Ph.D., serves as a Special Advisor of the portfolio companies of General Catalyst Partners. Dr. Cash also serves as a Special Advisor at Highland Capital Partners. Since the creation of his first software company in 1970, he has been focused on the combination of the strategic use of information technology in large scale companies and early stage companies that develop software and services for that market. He has been ... a Director of Wal-Mart Stores Inc since June 2, 2006 and serves as its Lead Independent Director. Dr. Cash has been a Director of The Chubb Corporation, since 1996. He has been a Director at Veracode, Inc. since November 2009. He serves as a Director of Verne Global, Inc., Inforay International B.V., Grain Communications Group, Inc and Banner Seventeen LLC. He is a Member of Advisory Board of AP Capital Partners, L.L.C. He is also on the Advisory Board of the Met Fund. He serves as a Member of Americas Advisory Board at Deutsche Bank AG. He serves as the Director at Green Exchange LLC. He has been an Independent Director of General Electric Company since 1997. He serves as a Director at Massachusetts Software & Internet Council. He served as a Director of Winstar Communications Inc. since January 1997. Dr. Cash served as a Director of Microsoft Corporation from June 2001 to November 19, 2009. He served as a Director of Phase Forward Inc. from October 2003 to May 8, 2009 and also served as its Lead Independent Director until May 2009. He served as a Trustee of Partners HealthCare System, Inc. He served as a Director of Scientific-Atlanta, LLC since 2001. He served as a Director of ITM Software Corp., BarcoNet NV, Sprint, Alcon Labs, Moxie Software, Inc, Alcon, Inc, Knight Ridder Ventures, Knight-Ridder, Inc., Tandy, Partners Healthcare, Mass General Hospital, The Gardner Museum, Museum of Science, State Street Corporation and State Street Bank and Trust Company. He served as a Director of Cambridge Technology Partners (Massachusetts) Inc., since September 1995. He served as a Director of Procurian USA Inc since June 2001. Dr. Cash also served on 18 public company boards and regularly advises young entrepreneurs and early-stage companies. He serves on a number of not-for-profit boards, including National Association of Basketball Coaches Foundation and serves as a Trustee at The Markle Foundation. He serves as a Trustee of Harlem Children's Zone, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Newton-Wellesley Hospital as well as an Overseer of the Boston Museum of Science. He serves as a Trustee of the Bert King Foundation, on the Board of the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Foundation, on the Advisory Council for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. In addition to his board work, under the umbrella of The Cash Catalyst, LLC, he runs personal development programs for executives in Global 500 organizations. Dr. Cash is an Emeritus James E. Robison Professor and a Senior Associate Dean of the Harvard Business School since 1988. He served on the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Business from July 1976 to October 2003. In addition to heading several executive education programs, he taught in all the major HBS programs including M.B.A., Management Development, Global Leadership, and Advanced Management programs. Dr. Cash served as the Chairman of Baker Library, the Chairman of the M.B.A. program from 1992 to 1995, and the Chairman of the Harvard Business School Publishing Company at different times during his time at the school. Among his publications are articles in accounting and information technology journals, several Harvard Business Review articles including, “Teaming Up to Crack Innovation and Enterprise Integration” (November-December 2008), “IS Redraws Competitive Boundaries“ (March-April 1985) and “Information Technology and Tomorrow's Manager“ (November-December 1988), several books: Building the Information-Age Organization: Structure, Control; and Information Technology with Eccles, Nohria and Nolan (Irwin), Corporate Information Systems Management: Issues Facing Senior Managers and Corporate Information Systems Management: Text and Cases with McFarlan and McKenney (Irwin), Global Electronic Wholesale Banking with Mookerjee (Graham & Trotman), and an instructional videotape, Competing Through Information Technology with Warren McFarlan (Nathan/Tyler). Dr. Cash regularly convenes meetings of the Chief Information Officers and, for five years, led a leadership development program for future Chief Information Officers. He has authored numerous articles and several books on topics related to information technology and corporate management and structure. He was selected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011. Dr. Cash received a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from Texas Christian University; a Master of Science in computer science from Purdue University's Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences; and a Doctor of Philosophy in Management Information Systems (MIS) and Accounting from Purdue University's Krannert Graduate School of Management.

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